Psalms 15:1

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Give us today our daily bread.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;

saying, “Don’t harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!”

They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.” ’

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”

On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.

The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.